Isn't it fascinating! With a Sony Playstation3 you have every opportunity to enjoy best music and videos sitting at home and redefine the whole gaming experience. Playstation3 or PS3 can keep you entertained the way you want.

Now what is this PS3? It is the successor of PS2 produced by Sony—the third home video game console. Being the third member of the Sony Playstation series the PS3 is much more sophisticated than its predecessor. The Playstation3 like the Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii is born to rule the video gaming world by its advanced functionalities. This seventh generation video game console was introduced for the first time in November 11, 2006, in Japan, in 17 November in North America and Asia and in Europe and Oceania it was introduced in the month of March, 2007.

Playstation3 is perhaps the first gaming console with next-generation primary storage media, Blu-ray Disc. However the PS3 also supports CDs, DVDs, HDDs and certain models of SACDs. The most remarkable fact about the PS3 is that it is capable of playing back content at a maximum bit rate of multiplex 48Mbps from Blu-ray Disc. It is the maximum bit rate according to the BD standards.

The PlayStation 3 supports vide array of video formats, including MPEG-1 , MPEG-2 (PS,TS), H.264/MEPG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 and numerous other audio formats, including ATRAC, WAV (.wav). MP3 (.mp3), GIF, PNG, JPEG and TIFF formats. It is driven by a high-powered cell processor which helps to play PS3 video games and PS3 movie play with amazingly smooth details. It can also be controlled wirelessly with the help of the gigabit Ethernet and Blu-ray disc player. Playstation3 is a high-definition device which actually plays video games and movies with HDTV resolution up to 1080p

As an audio player too it is remarkable. It supports a variety of formats like the Dolby TrueHD and 7.1 digital audio and many others of the latest types. Its recent addition the PS3 version of the Cross Media Bar demonstrated at E3 2006 is much handier as it facilitates different user profiles, and enables exploring of photos, playing music and watching videos from the hard drive. Further the Playstation3 is also compatible with USB Keyboard and has a high-quality Internet browser.